Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Polysemy of the verbs ya and tla in Northern Sotho
Thesis (MA (African Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
2008
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867614040078942208 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Marobela, Refilwe Mmaseroka |
| author2 | Visser, M. |
| author_browse | Marobela, Refilwe Mmaseroka Visser, M. |
| author_facet | Visser, M. Marobela, Refilwe Mmaseroka |
| author_sort | Marobela, Refilwe Mmaseroka |
| collection | Thesis |
| dc_rights_str_mv | University of Stellenbosch |
| description | Thesis (MA (African Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/1033 |
| institution | Stellenbosch University (South Africa) |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:45:41.741Z |
| license_str | Other — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from SUNScholar — Stellenbosch University Repository |
| publishDate | 2008 |
| publishDateRange | 2008 |
| publishDateSort | 2008 |
| publisher | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| publisherStr | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | SUNScholar — Stellenbosch University Repository |
| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/1033 Polysemy of the verbs ya and tla in Northern Sotho Marobela, Refilwe Mmaseroka Visser, M. University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of African Languages. African languages Northern Sotho language Dissertations -- African languages Theses -- African languages Northern Sotho language -- Verb Assignments -- African languages Dissertations -- Northern Sotho language Theses -- Northern Sotho language Assignments -- Northern Sotho language Thesis (MA (African Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The topic of study is ‘go’ and ‘come’ verbs in Northern Sotho, which can be classified as verbs of state or motion. This study examines the semantics as well as the syntactic analysis of these verbs of state of motion within the framework of Pustejovsky’s Generative Lexicon Theory. This study will explore the polysemy of ‘ya’, as shown in the sentences below: 1. Bana ba ya nokeng. (The children go/are going to the river) 2. Bašimane ba ya šokeng. (The boys go/are going to the bush) The verb ya ‘go’ may end with the suffix –ile to realise the past tense of ya as illustrated in the following examples: 3. Bana ba ile nokeng. (The children went to the river) 4. Bašemane ba ile šokeng. (The boys went to the bush) The study also examines the polysemy of the verb –tla in Northern Sotho. The verb tla ‘come’ semantically denotes motion as shown in the sentences below. 5. Basadi ba tla monyanyeng. (The women come to the party) 6. Banna ba tla kopanong. (Men come/are coming to the meeting) The verb tla may end with the suffix –ile to demonstrate the past tense of –tla, as shown in the following sentences. 7. Ngwana o tlile sekolong. (The child came to school) 8. Mokgalabje o tlile kgorong. (The old man came to the headkraal) This study will demonstrate that the agent argument of the verbs –ya and –tla may regularly occur as complement of the preposition le in Northern Sotho. The range of data examined demonstrate that the verbs –ya and –tla exhibit a wide range of semantic selectional properties as regard to the subject argument and the locative argument. The study also analyses the aspectual properties of the sentences with –ya and –tla with reference to the activity and achievement situation types. Masters 2008-07-21T08:12:32Z 2010-05-31T09:03:37Z 2008-07-21T08:12:32Z 2006-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1033 en University of Stellenbosch application/pdf Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| spellingShingle | African languages Northern Sotho language Dissertations -- African languages Theses -- African languages Northern Sotho language -- Verb Assignments -- African languages Dissertations -- Northern Sotho language Theses -- Northern Sotho language Assignments -- Northern Sotho language Marobela, Refilwe Mmaseroka Polysemy of the verbs ya and tla in Northern Sotho |
| title | Polysemy of the verbs ya and tla in Northern Sotho |
| title_full | Polysemy of the verbs ya and tla in Northern Sotho |
| title_fullStr | Polysemy of the verbs ya and tla in Northern Sotho |
| title_full_unstemmed | Polysemy of the verbs ya and tla in Northern Sotho |
| title_short | Polysemy of the verbs ya and tla in Northern Sotho |
| title_sort | polysemy of the verbs ya and tla in northern sotho |
| topic | African languages Northern Sotho language Dissertations -- African languages Theses -- African languages Northern Sotho language -- Verb Assignments -- African languages Dissertations -- Northern Sotho language Theses -- Northern Sotho language Assignments -- Northern Sotho language |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1033 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT marobelarefilwemmaseroka polysemyoftheverbsyaandtlainnorthernsotho |